Past Events

RFF hosts numerous events throughout the year on a variety of environmental and natural resource issues. Past events are linked below. Most include video as well as presentations from expert panelists and featured speakers.

Rapid resource development can impact local communities and public education through numerous channels. This webinar will feature an expert panel discussion of findings from an extensive RFF study examining the effects of unconventional oil and gas development on school districts across six oil- and gas-producing states—Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, North Dakota, Montana, and Colorado.

Join us on July 18 for an interactive online panel discussion about the proposed features of these competing pathways for the California cap-and-trade program, what modifications or amendments may be considered as they work through the legislative process, potential implications for the California carbon market, and the potential effects on linkage with the programs in Quebec, Ontario, and other jurisdictions that might consider linkage in the future.

Join Resources for the Future (RFF) for the webinar series: WHIMBY—What’s Happening in My Backyard? The Community Impacts of Unconventional Gas and Oil Development. The first webinar in this series provides an overview of findings from in-depth literature reviews on health outcomes, induced seismicity, economic effects, housing price changes, truck traffic, educational outcomes, and the effects on local public finances.

Since the February webinar on the emissions containment reserve (ECR) concept, researchers at Resources for the Future (RFF) and the University of Virginia have been working hard on further analysis and modeling of the ECR. This webinar presented the results of this research; a final report will be released in early summer.

This workshop brought together academic, government, and industry experts to review the status of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies, as well as the policy frameworks that would support further development.

RFF Fellow Yusuke Kuwayama introduced RFF’s Consortium for the Valuation of Applications Benefits Linked with Earth Science (VALUABLES), a cooperative agreement between RFF and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Experts at Ecofys, RFF, CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), and other organizations are analyzing how internal carbon prices are developed and used to hedge the risks of future climate change policies and spur carbon mitigation and technology innovation.

Marcus Peacock, currently serving as special advisor to US Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, appeared at RFF to discuss President Trump’s recent executive orders on regulatory policy.

This webinar brought together experts and representatives from states, electric generators, academia, and nongovernmental organizations to consider this new approach for ensuring that the RGGI emissions trading program functions as designed and examine the finer points of how such a reserve might work and be implemented.

At this RFF event, Robert Muir-Wood, chief research officer of Risk Management Solutions and author of The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters, explored the human causes of disaster and the new technologies and policy tools available to minimize their impact

Upcoming Events

Rapid resource development can impact local communities through numerous channels. This webinar will focus on water withdrawals for natural gas development and the impact of related government regulations.